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Patented Nov. 3, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

LUOIAN E. PARKER, or WADSWORTH, OHIO, Assis-Non To THE. OHIO MATCHColvi- :PANY, vor WADSWORTH, omar.A CORPORATION' or OHIO.

Application filed. December 1, 1924. Serial No. 753,409.

To all fio/tom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, LUC-IAN E. Pannen, a citizen oli' the United'States, residing at lVadswoi'th, in the county of Medina and 5 State ofOhio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in LinkCarriers for Paper-Match Machines, of which the following is al full,clear, and exact description.

The object ol this invention is to provide an improved form of linkcarrier tor use in machines for making paper, strip or card matches, bywhich the match strip or card is securely held, without the interventionof 15 springs, while the strip is being carried through the machine fordipping and drying purposes.

The invention consists of a link having any desired number of transversegrooves,

20 in which 0'rooves are stao'o'ered )ro'ections oit substantially thedepth of the grooves and extending from opposite side walls thereof instaggered relation, so that the flexible match strips or cards may beinserted by hand or otherwise in these grooved links and held therein bydeflection incident to contact with the staggered projections, butwithout permanently distorting the strips, as I will proceed now toexplain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the severalfigures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure l is a planview of two connected links made iu accordance with the presentinvention. Fig. 2 is an end view of one of the links on a larger scalethan Fig. l, and showing in dotted lines match strips inserted in thelinks. Fig` 3 is a cross-section ot' one ot the links. Fig. l is a topplan view showing a, part oit the link with a part ot a match strip orcard inserted theiein.

The body l oil the link is made with the transverse grooves 2 having theprojections 3 and Ll extending from the opposite side walls olf thegrooves in staggered relation and oi substantially the depth of thegrooves, as shown more in detail in Fig. 3. These projections are shownas of curvilinear outline, and this conformation will be found Qsatisfactory. although the invention is not limited to the curvilinearprojections.

It is advisable, however, that these projections should not extend intothe grooves from either side for a distance greater than halt of thewidth of the grooves.

The usual end elements 5 are formed on the links whereby a series oflinks may be connected in an endless carrier, which is suitably mountedand adapted to be moved from end to end of the machine for iinishing thematches, as usual. These end elements likewise have the teeth 6 forengaging sprocket wheels by which the carrier is supported and moved, asusual.

As indicated in Figs. 2 and el., the match strips aie inserted in thegrooves and their uncut margins are engaged by the projec-v tions 3 and4, which Will put bights in the strips and thereby serve to hold thestrips securely in the links without the intervention o't springs orother yielding devices, Tuch as have been commonly used heretofore.

The deflection of the uncut margin of the strips by reason of itsengagement with the projections 3 an-d 4 is only temporary, and when thestrips are discharged or ejected from the links they will automaticallyresume their original flatness.

The bottoms of the grooves are provided with the through holes 7 forreceiving the ejector pins commonly used in this class of machines fordischarging or ejecting the finished strips from the links.

It may be repeated, in another way, that the projections 3 and 4 serveto very slightly deflect back and forth or crimp the matchY stripthroughout its entiie length, but not enough to distort the splints tobe operated on or to permanently corrugate or crimp the strips.

Variations in the details of construction and the shape of theprojections are permissible within the principle of the invention asherein explained and hereinafter claimed.

l. A. link carrier 'lor paper match ina.- chiiies, having transverselygrooved links provided with projections from the side walls of saidgrooves and extending into the grooves in staggered relation.

2. A link carrier :for paper match machines, having links transverselygrooved, each groove partly occupied by projections extendingfrom itsopposite side walls in staggered relations and adapted to grip and holdthe: match strip or card fivliile such strip or card is being carriedthrough a match making machine,

3. A link ycarrier for paper match nmto permit the ejection or dischargeof the ohines,. hlv'ing 'transversely grooved links, Strips. y n saidgrooves provided With curved projee- In testimony whereofl I havehereunto Set l0 tions extending into the grooves from oppomy hand this29th day 0f November A. D.

5 site side Walls thereof alternately and 1924.

adapted to hold the match Strips or Cards While temporarily crimpingthem, and meansy LUCIAN E. PARKER.

